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Courting Confusion on Climate Change
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
12.21.2010
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on utilities companies being sued for emitting carbon dioxide. That the case has reached the Supreme Court indicates how confused our judicial system is on the subject of climate, but it is even more troubling that that the courts may be allowed essentially to decide climate policy.
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Intent Versus Reality in Conservation Strategies
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
11.16.2010
Last month, the Chicago Climate Exchange announced that at the end of this year it will shut down its voluntary program for trading greenhouse gas emissions. The closing of the CCX comes on the tails of a shift in congressional power in the mid-term elections that most believe indicates the end of President Obama’s efforts to pass “cap and trade” regulation for carbon emissions.
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Walmart’s Sustainable Agriculture Campaign Benefits Farmers, Consumers and the Environment
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
10.19.2010
Retail giant Walmart announced plans this month to expand their “sustainable agriculture” goals, including sourcing more of the food they sell from small- and medium-sized farms, and doubling the amount of local produce grown and sold to customers within the same state. While critics contend that the corporation is destructive to local economies, Walmart’s efforts to redefine the food supply chain may provide positive outcomes to both local farmers and consumers.
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New EPA Car Labels Should Stick to Facts
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
9.21.2010
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation jointly announced that they are considering an upgrade of the energy and environmental information on new-car labels. Potential buyers, unfortunately, won’t find the whole story on the new labels, even though the timing is right.
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Why the Going is Tough for High-Cost Legislation on Climate Change
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
7.20.2010
For those favoring legislation on climate change, these should be the best of times. The Democrats, typically the party of the greens, are in control at the federal level. The BP disaster in the Gulf might, under other circumstances, be a motivator for major changes to rules affecting oil drilling and consumption. Several investigative committees have largely cleared the scientists involved in last November’s “Climategate” scandal of any major wrongdoing. But none of that is translating into any movement on climate policy, and that scandal is part of the reason.
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Inherit the Wind – the Reality Show
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
5.18.2010
Last month, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the Cape Wind project, a 130-turbine wind farm on Nantucket Sound that has been loudly opposed by wealthy residents on Cape Cod for mostly aesthetic reasons. The latest argument against Cape Wind reveals another angle.
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How EPA Renewable Fuel Standard Threatens the Environment
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
4.20.2010
Earlier this year, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the final version of the advanced renewable fuel standard, known as RFS2. The new standard sets greenhouse gas emission performance standards for the nation’s transportation fuels. Requirements for annual volumetric use of renewable fuels more than double in a decade, from 13 billion gallons in 2010 to 36 billion gallons in 2022.
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